Business

Economy and business news. Business is the practice of making one’s living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”

Runaway Former Nazi Concentration Camp Secretary Facing Trial is Found 

Runaway Former Nazi Concentration Camp Secretary Facing Trial is Found 

A former Nazi concentration camp secretary has been found in Germany after failing to appear in court for the beginning...

New Holographic Technology Provides Transportive Experience

New Holographic Technology Provides Transportive Experience

A company in suburban Washington, D.C., is using cutting-edge technology to create lifelike video avatars to drop into music and...

Court Convicts Former French Leader Sarkozy in Campaign Finance Case

Court Convicts Former French Leader Sarkozy in Campaign Finance Case

A court in France has sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to one year in prison after finding him guilty of...

British Government to Use Army to Help Ease Fuel Trucker Shortage

British Government to Use Army to Help Ease Fuel Trucker Shortage

Britain’s business minister said Wednesday the army would begin driving fuel tankers in response to shortages at gas stations around...

YouTube Will Ban All Content Containing What it Calls Vaccine Misinformation

YouTube Will Ban All Content Containing What it Calls Vaccine Misinformation

YouTube will ban any video that claims vaccines are ineffective or dangerous, including those that question vaccines for measles and...

Russia Threatens YouTube Block After RT TV’s German Channels Are Deleted

Russia Threatens YouTube Block After RT TV’s German Channels Are Deleted

Russia threatened Wednesday to block Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube after Russian state-backed broadcaster RT’s German-language channels were deleted, and said it...

New Technologies Aim to Reduce Carbon in Atmosphere

New Technologies Aim to Reduce Carbon in Atmosphere

A bunch of new technologies are popping up that could help bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net-zero by 2050, and all need investment. Governments...

Massive North Sea Wind Farm Could Power Denmark, Neighbors

Massive North Sea Wind Farm Could Power Denmark, Neighbors

Weeks before a high-profile climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Danish officials are talking up an ambitious program to develop the...

German Election: Olaf Scholz Narrow Favorite to Succeed Angela Merkel

German Election: Olaf Scholz Narrow Favorite to Succeed Angela Merkel

It’s still not clear who will be the next leader of Germany, after Sunday’s election failed to give any party...

In Spain, the Push is on for Squatter’s Rights

In Spain, the Push is on for Squatter’s Rights

The pandemic has made Spain’s affordable housing crisis worse and civil organizations are now pressuring the government to pass a...

Kremlin Critic Navalny Hit With New Probe, Could Face 10 More Years in Prison

Kremlin Critic Navalny Hit With New Probe, Could Face 10 More Years in Prison

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny is facing a new criminal probe by Russian investigators that could lead to 10 more...

At Least 20 Injured in Swedish Apartment Building Explosion

At Least 20 Injured in Swedish Apartment Building Explosion

Police and fire officials in Goteburg, Sweden say an explosion in an apartment building early Tuesday injured at least 20...

Britain Warns Citizens of Hong Kong Extradition Threat

Britain Warns Citizens of Hong Kong Extradition Threat

Concerns are growing over the reach of the national security law that China imposed on Hong Kong as Britain warned...

Facebook Puts Instagram Kids Project on Hold

Facebook Puts Instagram Kids Project on Hold

Facebook is putting its Instagram Kids project on hold amid growing concerns about potential harmful effects on young people, including...

Panic Buying Leaves  Fuel Pumps Dry in Major British Cities 

Panic Buying Leaves Fuel Pumps Dry in Major British Cities 

Up to 90% of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities on Monday after panic buying deepened a...

5.8 Quake Hits Crete, Killing One

5.8 Quake Hits Crete, Killing One

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rocked the Greek island of Crete Monday morning, leaving at least one person dead and several...

Volcano Lava Flow Halts but Many Confined Over Toxic Gas Fears

Volcano Lava Flow Halts but Many Confined Over Toxic Gas Fears

A Canary Islands volcano that has been erupting for over a week fell silent Monday as coastal residents were confined...

Goodbye Chancellor Merkel, Hello Chancellor Merkel

Goodbye Chancellor Merkel, Hello Chancellor Merkel

The joke in Berlin before Germans went to the polls Sunday was that the country’s longstanding chancellor, Angela Merkel, would...

Social Democrats Win Most Votes in German Election

Social Democrats Win Most Votes in German Election

Preliminary results Monday showed Germany’s center-left Social Democrats winning the largest share of the vote in national parliamentary elections as...

Recount Finds Iceland Just Misses Female-majority Parliament

Recount Finds Iceland Just Misses Female-majority Parliament

Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday, before a recount produced a result just short of that landmark for...

Swiss Approve Same-sex Marriage by Landslide in Referendum

Swiss Approve Same-sex Marriage by Landslide in Referendum

Switzerland voted by a wide margin to allow same-sex couples to marry in a referendum on Sunday, bringing the Alpine...

EU-US to Seek Shared Tech Rules Despite French Anger

EU-US to Seek Shared Tech Rules Despite French Anger

The EU and U.S. will this week embark on a tricky effort to deepen ties on tech regulation, but with...